Curious Refuge is an AI filmmaking school and online education community that was acquired by Promise in February 2025 and now operates as its generative-AI film-school division embedded within an active entertainment studio. Curious Refuge's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #60,804 among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Curious Refuge was co-founded by Caleb Ward and Shelby Ward and built around courses, coaching, workshops, and a community designed for generative-AI storytellers. Per Promise, the school had trained more than 10,000 filmmakers across more than 170 countries before the acquisition, and it continues to support studio and production teams directly. Promise describes Curious Refuge as its generative-AI film-school division, positioning the school inside a working entertainment studio rather than as a standalone platform.
Curious Refuge has accumulated 22,544 followers as of September 2026 on X and has published 3,625 posts. The account has been mentioned by 7 accounts, with 10 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Curious Refuge include 78 founders, 24 angel investors and 32 influencers. Among them are Andrej Karpathy, Udi Wertheimer, Gmoney, Anil Lulla, Sarah Guo and Andrew Steinwold.